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Jeff discusses drug policy in American with researcher and author Karl Zinsmeister. In addition to background on the drug epidemic and policy responses over the years, they focus on recent moves to relax enforcement of anti-drug laws, even to the extent of legalizing a variety of narcotics, such as what Oregon did only a few years ago. Instead of solving the crime and human degradation these progressive policies sought to address, they instead led to massive increases in overdose deaths, more crime, and other problems.
Read Karl’s book: https://a.co/d/03zBw1Y
Read Karl’s RCP article: https://tinyurl.com/bde2p5x9
Host: Jeff Sikkenga
Executive Producer: Greg McBrayer
Producer: Jeremy Gypton
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When I was in grade school and junior high in the 80s, we had all these anti-drug seminars, and they were really effective. I remember Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say No” campaign.
The county sheriff came to our grade school every year and did a presentation about the dangers of drugs. He told horrifying stories about addicts being locked up in jail and all the damage that drugs did to people. He had some huge needle that they would use to take a blood sample if you were arrested for using drugs, which scared the living daylights out of 4th-grade little me. Looking back, maybe that whole needle thing was BS, but I still remember it 40 years later, so it worked.